Biggs v. Town of Sandwich

The plaintiffs appeal from a decree of the Superior Court (Wyman, J.) which approved the Master’s (Harold D. Moran, Esq.) recommendation to affirm the Sandwich Zoning Board of Adjustment’s denial of the plaintiffs’ request for a building permit and subsequent request for a variance. The superior court also approved the master’s recommendation to deny the plaintiffs’ request for damages resulting from inverse condemnation of their property. We affirm.

In the latter part of 1979, the Sandwich Conservation Commission considered a wetlands ordinance for presentation to the 1980 town meeting.…